HISTORICAL TRUTH Part 1: Christian Rosenkreuz

PERSONAL REMARK:

The following text is a part of my personal critique of

my own past convictions, illusions and errors before I became a (conscious) Christian. I try to show that the historical claims of the modern "Rosicrucians" are not true.

And what´s more: I am an enemy of the occult and so-called "esoteric" teachings of all these groups.

Andreae took the information for his Protestant "Rosicrucians´" biography from several historical persons.

1 .Robertus Castrensis (Robert of Chester/Ketton)

(There is no guarantee for the exactitude of some details mentioned here, because they are mostly not part of scientific publications, but were found in the Internet. But the principal items seem to be historically true in my opinion.)

The report of Robert´s (and others´) travels by Richard Hakluyt was published in 1589.
--Later Andreae (the alleged author of the Rosicrucian manifests) read that book.---
Its pages tell  of one Robert Ketenensis, born English, who had spent his time with humanistic studies  in England and decided to travel to Asia (i.e. Konstantinople, Damascus).
Robert was accompanied by Hermanus Dalmata, one of the most learned men then.
(He developed an alchemical cosmology writing about the connection of the celestial and earthly world by certain "parental" laws.)
Robert  could live there with Muslims, because he spoke Arabic well. On his return to Spain he studied Astrology with H.D. Both created some Latin translations of Arabian manuscripts there.

Robert lived in the Kingdom of Leon from 1141-47. He became  Archdiacon in Pamplona in 1143. He lived in London from 1147-50 and was buried in Pamplona.

By Robert´s translation in 1144 of the alchemical book "Morienus" Europe got to know the idea of alchemy. Stephen of Alexandria, a Byzantine philosopher (7th c.), explains, , that the transmutation is a spiritual process. He saw it from a Christian perspective: The stone, which is no stone (Jesus Christ).
Morienus was Stephen´s disciple.  He became a hermit in the mountains of Jerusalem.
The byzantine monk Morienus was one of the teachers of Prince Khalid, an Omayyid (7th c.)
in Damascus or Alexandria.
The book has the form of a Arabic dialogue. It describes the production of the alchemical tincture
 and calls the operations a mere circumscription of a spiritual work to find the philosopher´s stone inside of us. Its name is: Liber de compositione alchemiae quaem edidit Morienus Romanus, Calid regi Aegyptiorum: quem Robertus Castrensis de Arabico in Latinum transtulit.

---Here is Andreae about the Liber M:

Christian Rosenkreuz took the alchemical book M. and

translated it into Latin.
"das Buch und librum M. in Gut Latein gebracht und mit sich genommen…"
"Theophrastus,…doch den Librum M. fleissig gelesen…"---

In 1142 Petrus Venerabilis, the famous abbot of Cluny, met Robert to order the translation
of the Koran. The abbot´s money gave the translators a new status:
The abbey Cluny had started an initiative for an ideological war against Islam.
Robert writes: " He (Pierre of Cluny) deserves to be praised. Because after the disciples of the church allowed the blasphemy (Islam) to expand and gain power and to go on spreading for about 537 years, it was Pierre of Cluny who exposed the foundations and origins of Islam.
I revealed in my translation as to which contaminated stream the Moslems drank from.
My task is like the task of infantry men who pave the way for others. I scattered the smoke rising
from the fire lit by Mohammed. Let´s hope that you (Pierre) would extinguish that light and fire."
He said, that in his attempted literal translation he had tried "not to cover so vile and unworthy a matter in gold."
He calls this translation a "digression from his main studies in Astronomy and Geometry".
Christianity used Robert´s translation for 5 centuries. 400 years after the beginning of the Reconquista against Muslims in Spain, half a century after the first crusade, Peter of Cluny´s first Koran-translation was not understood by his contemporaries.
Bernard of Clairvaux, supporter of the second crusade, even refused to read it.

1120 Book about the numbers (falsely claiming their Arabic origin and inventing the terms "SINUS/COSINUS )". Other terms he invented are: CIPHER, RADIX, ELIXIR
1143 he completed the Latin version of the Koran.
Robert created the term ALGEBRA in the translation of Al-Khwarizmis book Al-Jabr in 1145.
(also ALGORITHM)
1147 he wrote a commentary about Ptolemy.
He revised the first Western astronomical tables translation (London 1149).
Adelard II (Euclid´s Elements) is probably by Robert.

---1542 Oporinus (I.O) prints RC´s Koran (published by Bibliander, a Zwinglian, preface by Melanchton)
---1561 Grataroli (G.G.) publishes RC´s Liber Morienus---

- to be continued -

Part 2 etc: The Chronology of Andreae´s "Rosicrucians"

           and the brothers´identities